From Multimedia Services to Network Services
4th International COST 237 Workshop, Lisboa, Portugal, December 15-19, 1997. Proceedings
Published on 5. December 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 188 pages
978-3-540-63935-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International COST 237 Workshop, held in Lisboa, Portugal, in December 1997 of the European COST Programme on Multimedia Telecommunication Services. The 12 revised full papers presented were selected from 24 submissions. The topics covered include multimedia presentation, QoS Control, electronic commerce, CORBA and DCE, real-time multimedia, multimedia conferenceing, multicast networking, heterogeneous communications environments, and others.
More details
Series
Edition
1997 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XII, 188 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
312 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-63935-0 (9783540639350)
DOI
10.1007/BFb0026614
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Operator based composition of structured multimedia presentations.- SECCO - support environment for electronic commerce.- A bridge for heterogeneous communication between CORBA and DCE.- Distributed connection management for real-time multimedia services.- Evaluation of different video encryption methods for a secure multimedia conferencing gateway.- The FreeBSD audio driver.- Cell discarding mechanisms with minimum flow quality.- Implementing the digital storage media - command and control (DSM-CC) standard in the framework of an on-line service.- Resource selection in heterogeneous communication environments using the teleservice descriptor.- AMnet: Active multicasting network.- Impact of virtual group structure on multicast performance.